Improved caster-bottle



salt, pepper, and other articles of condiment ter shaft or spindle having` a series of radiatprovements in caster-bottles are illustrated,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BURROUGHS BEACH, OF WEST MERIDEN, ASSIGNOB TO HIMSELF AND E. A. THORP, OF NORTH HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED CASTER-BOTTLE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56.486, dated July 17, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BURRoUGHs BEACH, of West Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Iml'novements iu Caster-Bottles; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciljcation.

The present invention relates especially to that class of bottles used in casters for holding Yfor table and kitchen or cooking purposes; and it consists in arranging within the bottle, and extending in the direction of its length, a cening arms in such a manner that, without opening the bottle, it can be revolved or rotated therein, and thus, by means ofits several arms, thoroughly break up or pulverize the article or material in it, so that if the bottleis then shaken the material can be thrown out through the several pertorations of its top or cap piece, the importance of which. arrangement in casterbottles used for salt, the tendency of., which is to pack, is manifest to all.

In accompanying plate of drawings my im- Figure l being a central vertical section ot' the same, and Fig. 2 a modified forni of the arm spindle or shaft to be used in the caster-bottle for breaking up or pulverizing its contents.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A in the drawings represents the bottle, which may be made of any ot' the usual styles and shapes, and of any desired size, according to the size of the caster in which it is to be placed 5 B, the top or upper end of the bottle, provided with a series of perforations, a a, through which the material placed in the bottle is thrown out by the shaking ofthe same, as with the ordinary pepper and salt bottles of casters. The bottom of the bottle is open,and closed with a plug or thin disk or cover, C, made of suitable size to tightlyiit the same,this plug,

when in the bottle, being at a short distance from its lower edge or end, D.

Through the center of the bottle A, and i111 the direction of and for its entire length, eX- tends a shaft or spindle, E, made of a zigzag shape, as plainly shown in the drawings, with one end in contact with, or nearly so, the inside surface of the perforated cap or top piece, B, of the bottle, and its other end loosely passed through the center of the bottom disk, C, so as to freely turn therein, with an eye or handle, F, upon its outer end, forconvenience in turning it, which handle F is wholly within or incased by the portion of the caster-bottle between its bottom edge and the plug C insertedtherein.

From the above description it is apparent that by turning the zigzag shaft or spindle E, arranged within the center of the bottle, as labove explained, the salt or pepper contained in the bottle will be broken up or pulverized, if in a compact form or packed, as is often the case, with salt especially, thus enabling such material to be shaken or thrown out ofthe bottle through its perforated cap or end.

` In Fig. 2 a modification in the for'm of the spindle arranged in the caster-bottle is shown, it consisting simply of a straight shaft or spindle, Cr, provided with a series of pyramidal- The combination, with a caster-bottle, of a shaft or spindle extending through the same in the direction of its length, and arranged to be turned therein in the manner and for the purpose described.

` The above specification ot' my invention signed by Ine this 15th day of February, 1866.

BURROUGHS BEACH.

Witnesses:

M. M. LIVINGSTON, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

